National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

As Japan’s sole National Research and Development Agency specializing in the field of information and communications technology, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is charged with promoting ICT sector as well as research and development in ICT, which drives economic growth and creates an affluent, safe and secure society.

NICT's Cybersecurity Research Institute works on R&D for cybersecurity techniques to cope with sophisticated cyberattacks and unknown and potential threats, such as ones for emerging IoT devices. We also work to automate countermeasures against cyberattacks by collecting, accumulating, and analyzing large amounts of information on diversified cyberattacks, including indiscriminate and targeted ones. Moreover, we verify the effectiveness of our research outcomes by applying them to our own cyberattack analysis, and then disseminate them to society.